O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.

You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define us.

American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.